BBC Four HD

When a music score is uncovered deep within the storerooms of the Louvre, musical historians scramble to realize the potential of this piece of papyrus, an ancient version of the tragedy entitled 'Medea'.

Dr Helen Czerski examines the extraordinary messages sound waves carry, and how they help us understand the world around us. Visiting a hidden location buried beneath the hills of Scotland, Helen experiences some of the most extreme acoustics in the world. She discovers how...

Hidden away in the most easterly part of the British Isles are the Fens of East Anglia, a landscape of big skies and distant horizons, wild wetlands and fertile farmland. Water has always been the driving force here.

Tom Fort embarks on a 170-mile journey down Britain's third longest river, the Trent. Beginning on foot, he soon transfers to his own custom-built punt, the Trent Otter. Along the way he encounters the power stations that generate much of the nation's electricity, veterans of...

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

We celebrate the glorious nature of Summer on planet Earth, and the extraordinary ways animals and plants rise to the challenges it brings. With the sun shining and the flowers blooming, this is the season of splendid abundance, and the long hours of daylight make life burst out...

Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri travel to the grand Georgian mansion of Tatton Park in Cheshire, where Bendor has spotted a mysterious portrait of a 16th-century physician in its collection.

Magnus Magnusson hosts from Reading University. Specialist subjects include the Alps, symphony orchestra instruments, children's literature and the Old Testament.

Panel game of word definitions and deceptions hosted by Robert Robinson. Team captains Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir are joined by guests Prunella Scales, Paul Eddington, Gayle Hunnicutt and Russell Davies.

Japanese contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama's work pushed boundaries that often alienated her from her peers and those in power in the art world. Kusama was an underdog with everything stacked against her: the trauma of growing up in Japan during World War II, life in a...